 Were I to indulge my own theory, I should wish them to practise neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand, with respect to Europe, precisely on the footing of China. We should thus avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen.  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1784-1787 - Page 107by Thomas Jefferson - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pages
...F. IV., 479.) AGRICULTURE. — Were I to indulge my own theory, I should wish our States to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with...respect to Europe precisely on the footing of China. We would thus avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen. But this is theory only, and a theory... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...F. IV., 479.) AGRICULTURE. — Were I to indulge my own theory, I should wish our States to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with...respect to Europe precisely on the footing of China. We would thus avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen. But this is theory only, and a theory... | |
 | Francis Bellamy - 1905 - 536 pages
...greater pestilence,—the growth of great cities. "I should wish," he writes, "the States to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with...respect to Europe precisely on the footing of China." These extraordinary fancies bear the mark of genuine enthusiasm in agriculture, and naturally knitted... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 476 pages
...importance of commerce and navigation to his country. In October 13, 1785, he writes to Count Hogendorp, " You ask what I think on the expediency of encouraging...avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen." Such ideas he seems to have entertained, at least until the close of his political life; nor does he... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1908 - 480 pages
...importance of commerce and navigation to his country. In October 13, 1785, he writes to Count Hogendorp, "You ask what I think on the expediency of encouraging...avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandmen." Such ideas he seems to have entertained, at least until the close of his political life ; nor does... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1916 - 1216 pages
...long as ... there shall be vacant lands in America." J Jefferson wished the United States "to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with...respect to Europe precisely on the footing of China."' Far from thinking that the low state of our credit was a bad thing for us, he believed that its destruction... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1916 - 574 pages
...long as ... there shall be vacant lands in America." 2 Jefferson wished the United States "to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with respect to Europe precisely on the footing of China."3 Far from thinking that the low state of our credit was a bad thing for us, he believed that... | |
 | 1926 - 548 pages
...moins un état doit s'assujettir à ne vendre ses marchandises qu'à une seule wish them to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand, •with...respect to Europe, precisely on the footing of China... But this is theory only, and a theory which the servants of America are not at liberty to follow. Our... | |
 | 1924 - 464 pages
...encouraging our states to be commercial ? Were I to indulge my own theory, I should wish them to practice neither commerce nor navigation, but to stand with...should thus avoid wars, and all our citizens would be husbandsmen.172 Surely this was isolation with a vengeance ! Jefferson had given information to the... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1925 - 87 pages
...son attitude peut se trouver résumée dans une lettre qu'il écrivait dès 1785 à Hogendorp : « You ask what I think on the expediency of encouraging...respect to Europe, precisely on the footing of China... But this is theory only, and a theory wliich the servants of America are not at liberty to follow.... | |
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